Food waste recycling

Every household has been issued with a 10 litre food waste container. The container has a locking handle to prevent spills and smells and to protect the contents from vermin.

Your food waste container is emptied weekly and must be out at the kerbside with the lid in the locked position by 7 am on your collection day, but no earlier than the previous evening. Please ensure your food waste container is visible from the roadside. Make sure the position does not endanger other pavement or highway users.

Keeping your food waste container clean

To ensure that the newspaper or liner is taken along with the food waste, make sure that the newspaper is wrapped completely around the food waste or that the top of the compostable liner is tied up.

Ubico staff will not remove a newspaper/liner which is stuck to the inside of a food waste container after it has been emptied.

Please do not wrap food waste in foil or plastic bags. This type of material will contaminate the composting process.

Adding food waste to your home composting

Please note that you are advised not to add meat fish and bones to your home compost bin, as it can attract vermin. However, you can recycle these items in your food waste container.

Boost your soil with processed organic waste

Processed organic waste collected in Gloucestershire, including the food and garden waste collected from Cotswold residents, is now being sold to the public as a soil improver. It is available from all household recycling centres, including Fosse Cross, at £3.50 for a 40 litre sack. The quality of the material is so good that it should not be used directly as compost, but rather as a conditioner to be dug in with existing soil.